On 5 December 2017, Typical Requirements for Vertical Concerted Actions of Business Entities (hereinafter the "Typical Requirements"), approved by the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (the "AMC"), became effective.

Vasil Kisil & Partners has successfully represented construction-company Rele for the second time in a dispute with the Kiev City Council involving the premature termination of a 49-year land lease agreement.

Sayenko Kharenko has advised PJSC Toronto-Kyiv on the complex restructuring of a cross-border syndicated loan facility from PJSC Alfa-Bank raised to develop the Toronto-Kyiv Business Center located in downtown Kyiv.

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang in Kyiv has announced that it advised SD Capital on English and Ukrainian law aspects of a joint venture transaction involving towage services in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Yuzhnyi. P&O Maritime was advised on English law by Clyde & Co. and on Ukrainian law by Sayenko Kharenko.

On October 24, 2017, CEE Legal Matters reported that Mellanox Technologies, a software developer headquartered in Israel, would be opening an R&D center in Kyiv. We reached out to Gideon Rosenberg, Deputy General Counsel & Vice President of Legal Affairs at Mellanox, for more information.

Dentons is representing Bojer Innovativ Ingenior Radgivning, an engineering consulting company from Aarhus, Denmark, on its appeal of a lower court judgment regarding a raid of its property in Odessa, Ukraine.

Eucon has successfully represented Ukraine's Savik Shuster Studio TV Channel in a tax matter regarding the proper determination of the regular sale price of national TV programs compared with the sale price of programs to the Inter TV channel.

Aequo has advised Ukraine's Dragon Capital Group on the acquisition of a logistics and an industrial center in the Kyiv region of Ukraine. The sellers were private individuals, whose names were not disclosed.

Clifford Chance and Avellum have advised the EBRD on a loan of up to USD 350 million to support the modernization and environmental upgrade of Ukraine's largest steel mill, PubJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih. ArcelorMittal was advised by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and the Kyiv office of Kinstellar.

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